The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-07-15
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The Pail Mall Gazette has adopted
the American term elevator" in place
of the shorter English name for the
machine, '.lift.''
Mr.. Elliot Stock has secured the
balusters from the staircase of the
house in Fetter Lane in which Dryden
is said to have lived, and of which the
destruction has been completed.
When ex-senator Thurman goes
on a journey he takes Mrs Thurman
along to keep off the newspaper men.
She is said to have the most charming
manner OF showing man the door.
The finest library in Pennsylvania
is about to be established in Wilkes
barre, through the beneyolence of the
late Isaac Osterhout. The fund given
amounts to nearly $500, 600. - Public
Opinion.
- Napoleon's travelling carriage,
which was captured at Waterloo by
Field Marshall Butcher, is still in eff
istence near Silesia. Napoleon had
left the carriage a short time before
its capture, abandoning his hat, sword
and some valuables.
The King of the Tonga Islands
dresses in well-made European clothes,
which set off his handsome
figure, but he can get no civil.
lied shoe to fit him, because his
feet are so large and have so enor-
nous development of heel.-Detroit
Free Press.
Mrs. Livermore has delivered
more than eight hundred temperance
addresses. For many years she has
lectured five nights a week. for five
month in the year. She travels yearly
twenty-five thousand miles, besides
working late into the night to main
tain her immense correspondence.
&C. P. Huntington, the railroad
magnate, runs to all the fires in. New
York when able. He takes a morbid
delight in seeing the flames leap and
hearing them roar. and frequently re-
mains for hours at CONGREGATIONS. Oc-
casionally he is accompanied by Mrs.
Huntington, who has the same desire
in modified form.
Fred Douglass recently said in
Paris: Il have travelled through most
of the countries of Europe, and when
ever am in the cars, in the theaters,
in the bathrooms, anywhere in fact, I
find that l am treated always with
courtesy, and not rarely with distin-
guished consideration. AS far as can
see, a man is judged over here with
out any regard to the color of his
hair, his eyes or his skim
DR.. j. Fl. Hepburn of Reimers-
burg, Pa, has in his possession table
which was once the property of
William Penn. 1t is solid walnut
and has two folding leaves.
1t is oval in shape. There are
two drawers, one in each end.
The table is four feet and seven
inches long and five feet wide when
the leaves are raised. It is very heavy
and solldly built, with no attempt at
characterization. An offer of $500 was
refused for it.
1t is usual at Cambridge to annual
ly give handsome sum- think it is
f100-for the best poem. Some years
ago a waggish undergraduate, for a
mere jest, mode poem by
piecing together fragments of all
those which had for many years
been the winners. He expected that
the committee would laugh at it
and throw it aside. What was his
horror at learning that he had been
adjudged the prize and that his name
was published all over England as
that Of the victor. How he got out of
the scrape know not, but no harm
came to him that ever I heard Of
London Letter.